Therapeutic Enterprise: A Psychological Exploration of Healing Elements in a Local African-American Spiritualist Church

African-American Spiritualist churches are dynamic and diverse ecclesiastical bodies in their exhibition of rich doctrinal material, elaborate public and private altars, and their multifarious ritualistic activities. This article employs analytical psychology to argue that these Spiritualist groups, as seen in the Redeeming Spiritualist Christian Church of Nashville, represent a viable therapeutic enterprise addressing certain psychological disruptions.